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Byrne, Dara. (2007). The Future of (the) 'Race': Identity, Discourse and the Rise of Computer-mediated Public Spheres. In A. Everett (Ed.), MacArthur Foundation Book Series on Digital Learning: Race and Ethnicity Volume (pp. 15-38).

Gajjala, R (2007) Shifting Frames: Race, Ethnicity and Intercultural Communication in Online Social Networking and Virtual Work. In Hinner, Michael B. (ed.) The Role of Communication in Business Transactions and Relationships. New York: Peter Lang, 257-276.

Hjorth, Larissa. (2008, forthcoming). Home and away: a case study of Cyworld mini-hompy by Korean students studying abroad in Australia. Asian Studies Review, The Internet in East Asia special issue (ed) Anne McLaren.

Recuero, Raquel. (2005). O Capital Social em Redes Sociais na Internet.Revista FAMECOS , 28 , 88-106. (Social Capital in Internet Social Networks) (in Portuguese) This paper compares social capital found in five Orkut Brazilian communities and social capital found in five weblog communities. It is based on a 2 year qualitative research about weblog communities and orkut communities.

Recuero, Raquel. (2004). Teoria das Redes e Redes Sociais na Internet: Considerações sobre o Orkut, os Weblogs e os Fotologs. In: XXVII Intercom, 2004, Porto Alegre. Anais do XXVII Intercom, 2004. (Network Theory and Social Networks in the Internet: Considerations about Orkut, Fotologs and Weblogs) (in Portuguese) This paper is about orkut's social appropriation by Brazilians. It is my first paper dealing with social neworks and network theory. It is more of an essay about how much of "new network's theory" (Barabási, Watts, Newman, Adamic and so on) could be qualitative observed within orkut, weblogs and fotologs.

Skog, D. (2005). Social interaction in virtual communities: The significance of technology. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 1 (4), 464-474.

Walther, Joseph B., Brandon Van Der Heide, Sang-Yeon Kim, David Westerman, Stephanie TomTong, and Lindsey Langwell. (in press). The Role of Friends' Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep? Human Communication Research.

Theses and School Papers

Bumgarner, Brett A. (2006). You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults. Unpublished Bachelor's Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Hidalgo, Diego. (2007). Online Social Networks: Social Relations and Mediated Communication. Master's Thesis. University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology.